We are better than we were, in that our communities [and individuals] are more integrated, but not...
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We are at an all-time high of African-Americans serving at the three-star level, [including two] women. In...
The way we should approach this is ‘How do we put ourselves out of a job? How...
If you go to Disney World, twenty years ago there were no express lines. … Now we...
To treat our own time period as though it is somehow exceptional feels intellectually and morally wrong....
We’re in a support role, and sometimes that’s a little bit challenges for folks to wrap their...
We tend to think about ‘strategic leaders’ as people who were successful…. But to me, it is...
We as American citizens have to re-evaluate … the information we’re getting from social media to inform...
The intelligence community typically focuses too much on the here-and-now and urgent, as opposed to the more...
You talk about the capabilities of the War College graduates and the ability as a colonel to...
How do we take an institution … that is designed to collect sensitive material and incorporate everything...
Instead of what the Melian dialogue tells us, which is that ‘Might Makes Right,’ … when it...
30 years ago, we still talked about deterrence a lot in this country. We still talked about...
It’s silly to expect that intelligence will always get it right. WAR ROOM welcomes Dr. Richard Betts...
What a President or any other senior leader brings with him or her to office in inevitably...
If they come out with an after-action review or lessons learned from Iraq and all it talks...
Failure is not just the result of one part of the equation. [Sometimes] you can give the...
People say, “Well, people break the rules of warfare all the time, so why should we have...
For national security officials who are wading through floods of information, how do they find that nugget,...
A story … breaks down more complicated theoretical concepts into something that is relatable. Among the challenges...